Editing Harry Kroto (section)

===Death and reactions===

Kroto died on 30 April 2016 in [[Lewes]], [[East Sussex]], from complications of [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]] at the age of 76.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/science/harold-kroto-nobel-prize-winning-chemist-is-dead-at-76.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/science/harold-kroto-nobel-prize-winning-chemist-is-dead-at-76.html |archive-date=2022-01-03 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize Winning Chemist, Is Dead at 76|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=7 May 2016|date=4 May 2016|author=Nicholas St. Fluer}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="guardianObit">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/02/sir-harry-kroto-nobel-prize-winning-chemist-dies-carbon|title=Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel prize-winning chemist, dies at 76|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=2 May 2016|author=Davis, Nicola|access-date=3 May 2016}}</ref>

[[Richard Dawkins]] wrote a memorial for Kroto in which he mentioned Kroto's "passionate hatred of religion."<ref>{{cite web |first=Richard |last=Dawkins |url=https://richarddawkins.net/2016/05/harry-kroto/ |title=Harry Kroto |publisher=Richard Dawkins Foundation |date=2 May 2016 |access-date=10 May 2016 }}</ref> ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' described him as "(spending much of his later life) jetting around the world to extol scientific education in a world he saw as blinded by religion."<ref>{{cite news |first=James R. |last=Hagerty |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/harry-kroto-won-a-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-1939-2016-1462549608 |title=Harry Kroto Helped Spur Wave of Research in Nanotechnology: 1939–2016 |work=The Wall Street Journal|date=6 May 2016 |access-date=12 May 2016 }}</ref> Slate's [[Zack Kopplin]] related a story about how Kroto gave him advice and support to fight Louisiana's creationism law, a law that allows public school science teachers to attack evolution and how Kroto defended the scientific findings of global warming.<ref>{{cite news |first=Zack |last=Kopplin |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/05/nobel_laureate_harry_kroto_was_more_than_just_a_scientist_he_was_a_mentor.html |title=Lessons Learned From Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto |work=Slate |date=5 May 2016 |access-date=11 May 2016 }}</ref> In an obituary published in the journal ''Nature'', [[Robert Curl]] and [[James R. Heath]] described Kroto as having an "[[imp]]ish sense of humour similar to that of the British comedy group [[Monty Python]]".<ref name=HeathCurl2016/>